Provided for in the 2018-2023 coalition agreement, the legalization of cannabis in Luxembourg “will be debated and voted on in public session during the week of June 26”, now indicates the Chamber of Deputies on its website.
As a first step, the Grand Duchy plans to authorize adult residents to grow up to four plants at home, from seeds. Plants should not be visible from the public space. Consumption must also be done at home under penalty of being fined up to 250 euros and possession of cannabis in public must not exceed 3 grams.
The next phase will be devoted to developing a state-controlled cannabis production and sales chain. To this end, a pilot project will be set up to regulate the sale of cannabis in Luxembourg, which will be reserved for residents over the age of 18, with a maximum purchase of 5 grams of cannabis per day in all future stores. and 30 grams per month. Certain products such as pre-rolls will not be authorized for sale to promote consumption in vaporization.
2 production licenses are currently planned. They will supply 14 points of sale that remain to be created. The sale of cannabis in public places will remain prohibited and coffeeshop-type places of consumption will not be authorized.
Sanctions will be provided for people who do not respect the rules, such as crossing the Luxembourg border with cannabis and regardless of the country of origin, possession of more than 5 grams in public or the sale or donation to minors or non-residents of Luxembourg.
The study will be monitored by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and various public health research institutions in the country to verify whether the system “enables the protection of public health at national level to be improved, in particular by quality control of products consumed by a very large public, and if the new prevention strategies make it possible to limit use, stem the proceeds and development of organized crime, free up capacities and resources at the level of the reduction of supply and the fight against organized crime and to reduce the contacts, to date unavoidable, of users with criminal circles. »
Luxembourg has set up a website with all the details of the legalization project.
